Trojan Flashback Ancaman Baru Bagi Komputer Mac


Setelah sekian lama terdengar bahwa komputer Mac aman- aman saja terhadap virus yang ada di dunia ini, baru – baru ini terdengar kabar bahwa 600.000 komputer Mac terserang oleh Virus. Virus ini dikategorikan sebagai malware, dan virus ini dinamakan “Trojan Flashback”.

Untuk memahami kekuatan Flashback itu, penting untuk dicatat bahwa sebenarnya merupakan sebuah keluarga malware  Mac OS X yang pertama kali dibuat pada September 2011. Dirancang  untuk menyamar sebagai installer Adobe Flash Player menggunakan logo player Flash. Setelah menginstal Flashback, malware mencari nama pengguna dan password yang disimpan di Mac.


Perusahaan pengungkap, Dr Web mengatakan sedikitnya 600.000 komputer Mac telah terinfeksi dan berpotensi dibajak dan dijadikan "botnet" - komputer yang fungsinya sebagai robot penyebar program jahat. Kebanyakan dari komputer-komputer tersebut berada di Amerika Serikat, dan sebagian lainnya berada di Kanada, Inggris Raya, dan Australia.

Dr Web mengatakan, begitu trojan ter-instal, ia akan mengirim pesan ke serverpengendali milik penyusup dengan ID unik untuk mengidentifikasi komputer yang terinfeksi.

"Versi sebelumnya untuk malware Flashback mengandalkan trik rekayasa sosial dan melakukan upaya untuk mencuri informasi pengguna," ujar kepala ahli keamanan dari penyedia perangkat lunak antivirus Kaspersky Lab, Alex Gostev seperti dilansir dari Mashable, Kamis (12/4/2012).

"Namun, sampai saat ini varian terbaru yang dikontrol oleh botnet Flashfake hanya digunakan untuk penipuan klik. Perbedaan utama adalah Trojan Flashback dapat diinstal langsung ke komputer pengguna dengan memanfaatkan kerentanan Java," tambahnya.

Versi yang lebih baru dari malware tersebut mengeksploitasi kelemahan yang ada dalam bahasa pemrograman Java. Tujuannya untuk memudahkan program-program jahat diinstal dari situs-situs penipuan tanpa seijin pemilik komputer.

Sementara itu Apple yang mengetahui infeksi Trojan Flashback tersebut segera bertindak denganmengembangkan tool untuk mendeteksi dan menghapus Trojan yang telah menginfeksi lebih dari setengah juta komputer Mac.

Ini merupakan pelajaran penting bagi setiap system operasi, bahwa tidak ada yang aman di dunia ini. Sesuai 
dengan motto para pembuat virus dan pembajak lainnya yaitu “NSP (No system Perfect)”.


VIRUS DESCRIPTION

Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C


Detection Names :Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C
Category:Malware
Type:Trojan-Downloader
Platform:OS X

Summary

Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C poses as a Flash Player installer and connects to a remote host to obtain further installation files and configurations.

Disinfection


Free Removal Tool
11 April 2012: F-Secure now provides a free removal tool that automates the detection and removal of Flashback variants from an infected machine.
Further information and download of the tool is available in the following Labs Weblog post:

Manual Removal
Caution: Manual disinfection is a risky process; it is recommended only for advanced users. Otherwise, please seek professional technical assistance. F-Secure customers may also contact our Support.

Manual Removal Instructions
Note: These instructions only disable the malware. The overwritten XProtectUpdater files are irrecoverable.
  • 1. Run the following command in Terminal:

    defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
  • 2. Take note of the value, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.
  • 3. Run the following command in Terminal:

    defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
  • 4. Take note of the value, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.
  • 5. Run the following commands in Terminal (first make sure there is only one entry, from steps 2 and 4):

    sudo defaults delete /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

    sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist

    sudo touch /Applications/Safari.app

    sudo defaults delete /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

    sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info.plist

    sudo touch /Applications/Firefox.app
  • 6. Delete the files obtained in steps 2 and 4.


Additional Details

Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C poses as a Flash Player installer and connects to a remote host to obtain further installation files and configurations.

Screenshot of the Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C installer.

To complete its installation/infection, Flashback.C requires the user to key in the administrator password.
On installation, the installer first checks if the following file is found in the system:
  • /Library/Little Snitch/lsd

Little Snitch is a firewall program for Mac OS X. If the program is found, the installer will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself.
If the trojan is cleared to proceed, it connects to a remote host, identified as http://[...]93.114.43.31/counter/%encoded_strings%, with the decoded string following this format:
  • %Hardware_UUID% | %machine_architecture% | %kernel_version% | %encoded_md5%
    The %encoded_md5% is the hash of the following:
    • %hardware_UUID%Jiangxi
As of this writing, the remote host is up but it does not push anything.


Payload
Installation files and configuration returned by the host is encrypted using RC4, where the MD5 hash of the Hardware UUID of the infected system is used as the key. The decrypted content follows this format:
  • %encoded_payload_filename% | %encoded_payload_content%

The installer drop copies of the payload to the following locations:
  • /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/%payload_filename%
  • /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/%payload_filename%

A DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable is also added to the targeted browsers as launch point. This is done by inserting a LSEnvironment entry to the corresponding Info.plist of the browsers.
Example:
  • The following line is inserted into "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist":
    • LSEnvironmentDYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
      /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/%payload_filename%

  • The following line is inserted to "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info.plist":
    • LSEnvironmentDYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
      /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/%payload_filename%

The installer then restarts running instances of Safari and Firefox in order to take the payload into effect.
The installer also disables the built-in anti-malware feature in Mac OS X. It unloads the XProtectUpdater daemon, and then wipes out the following files:
  • /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist
  • /usr/libexec/XProtectUpdater

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